| ADJECTIVE | all | instructive, informative | serving to instruct or enlighten or inform |
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| Sounds | ihnstrah'ktihv | |
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| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | Serving to instruct or enlighten or inform. | |
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| Synonym | informative | |
| Narrower | clarifying, elucidative | That makes clear |
| demonstrative, illustrative | Serving to demonstrate | |
| didactic, didactical | instructive (especially excessively) | |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability | |
| educational | Providing knowledge | |
| educative | Resulting in education | |
| explanatory | Serving or intended to explain or make clear | |
| expository, expositive | Serving to expound or set forth | |
| interpretative, interpretive | That provides interpretation | |
| ostensive | manifestly demonstrative | |
| preachy | Inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | |
| See also | informative, informatory | Providing or conveying information |
| Opposite | uninstructive | Failing to instruct |
| Spanish | informativo, instructivo | |
| Catalan | instructiu | |
| Adverbs | instructively | in an informative manner |
| Verbs | instruct | impart skills or knowledge to |
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